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Why Diplo Went Country · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. With the Ryan Seacrest, Diplos managed to
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  Speaker 1: infuse an incredibly diverse collection of genres and his music
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  Speaker 1: and the songs he produces for other artists, and this
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  Speaker 1: year he began dabbling in country music, which was a
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  Speaker 1: surprise to many music fans, but was actually a natural
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  Speaker 1: progression to the super producer. Diplo tells Rolling Stone, I've
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  Speaker 1: always been a country fan because I'm from the South,
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  Speaker 1: got to watch music videos on CMT and the radio
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  Speaker 1: was always on. There's a lot of care take and
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  Speaker 1: writing country songs. It's easy to immediately get into the music.
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  Speaker 1: That crowd that like country music when I was younger,
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  Speaker 1: got left behind when streaming took over. Now because every
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  Speaker 1: generation is streaming country music, it's growing fast. Diplo's latest
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  Speaker 1: for Ray in the Country under his alter ego Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Wesley Heartless featuring Morgan Wallen is out now. That's Direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood.